Hard work, disciplined habits, modesty in living, contentment and cheerfulness.

What goes up must come down.

It is not the length of life, but the depth.

If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

If you have zest and enthusiasm, you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind.

Where there is love there is life.

I think it can be shown that the law makes ten criminals where it restrains one.

Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that's how we've got to live.

Life can be wonderful if you're not afraid of it. All it takes is courage, imagination ... and a little dough

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.

A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.

You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.

Wrinkles are engraved smiles.

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

Anything I've done up till 27 May 1999 was kind of an illusion, existing without living. My daughter, the birth of my daughter, gave me life.

The worldly comforts are not for me. I am like a traveller, who takes rest under a tree in the shade and then goes on his way.

Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes